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The Metro Council’s offices are closed this week for the holidays, but you can check dclabor.org for the latest local labor news updates.

Here’s today’s labor history:On this date in 1899, 33 railroad clerks gathered in the back room of a cigar shop in Sedalia, Missouri to form Local Lodge Number 1 of a union they named the Order of the Railroad Clerks of America.

In 1905, Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, who had brutally suppressed the state’s miners, was killed by an assassin's bomb.

Legendary Western Federation of Miners and IWW leader William "Big Bill" Haywood and two other men were put on trial for the death but were ultimately declared innocent.

And in 1936, a GM sit-down strike spread to Flint, Michigan. The strike lasted 44 days before ending in union victory.

Today’s labor quote is by William "Big Bill" Haywood:"We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution without regard to capitalist masters."

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UC Radio airs weekdays at 7:15a on WPFW 89.3 FMYour Rights at Work airs Thursdays from 1-2pNEW! Subscribe to the Your Rights at Work podcast on iTunes! And get the Union City Radio podcast on Soundcloud.

UC Radio is a brief audio version of the award-winning Union City electronic newsletter, featuring DC-area labor news, updates, calendar and labor history with Union City Managing Editor Chris Garlock. UC Radio is a partnership between the Metro Washington Council and 89.3 FM WPFW. Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services; Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention; Union City Radio engineering by David Kelly.

Your Rights at Work is a call-in show about worker rights hosted by Chris Garlock, co-hosted by DCNA Executive Director Ed Smith. Produced by Peter Pocock.